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right (adj.)
1.being of striking appropriateness and pertinence"the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images" "an apt reply"
2.of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced
3.appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs"everything in its proper place" "the right man for the job" "she is not suitable for the position"
4.free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth"the correct answer" "the correct version" "the right answer" "took the right road" "the right decision"
5.correct in opinion or judgment"time proved him right"
6.most suitable or right for a particular purpose"a good time to plant tomatoes" "the right time to act" "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
7.(of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward"the right side of the cloth showed the pattern" "be sure your shirt is right side out"
8.having the axis perpendicular to the base"a right angle"
9.socially right or correct"it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye" "correct behavior"
10.in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure"what's the right word for this?" "the right way to open oysters"
11.intended for the right hand"a right-hand glove"
12.of or belonging to the political or intellectual right
13.being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north"my right hand" "right center field" "a right-hand turn" "the right bank of a river is the bank on your right side when you are facing downstream"
14.in conformance with justice or law or morality"do the right thing and confess"
15.in or into a satisfactory condition"things are right again now" "put things right"
16.upright in position or posture"an erect stature" "erect flower stalks" "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression" "a column still vertical amid the ruins" "he sat bolt upright"
17.precisely accurate"a veracious account"
18.(politics)believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
right (adv./adj.)
1.located on or directed toward the right"a right-hand turn"
right (adv.)
1.(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree"the baby is mighty cute" "he's mighty tired" "it is powerful humid" "that boy is powerful big now" "they have a right nice place" "they rejoiced mightily"
2.exactly"he fell flop on his face"
3.immediately"she called right after dinner"
4.an interjection expressing agreement
5.in the right manner"please do your job properly!" "can't you carry me decent?"
6.in an accurate manner"the flower had been correctly depicted by his son" "he guessed right"
7.precisely, exactly"stand right here!"
8.completely"she felt right at home" "he fell right into the trap"
9.in accordance with moral or social standards"that serves him right" "do right by him"
10.toward or on the right; also used figuratively"he looked right and left" "the party has moved right"
11.in a precise manner"she always expressed herself precisely"
12.without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening"he answered immediately" "found an answer straightaway" "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith" "Come here now!"
13.definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')"the results are surely encouraging" "she certainly is a hard worker" "it's going to be a good day for sure" "they are coming, for certain" "they thought he had been kil..."
14.(colloquial)without anyone or anything intervening"these two factors are directly related" "he was directly responsible" "measured the physical properties directly"
right (n.)
1.a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east"take a right at the corner"
2.the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
3.anything in accord with principles of justice"he feels he is in the right" "the rightfulness of his claim"
4.an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature"they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the ..."
5.the hand that is on the right side of the body"he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left" "hit him with quick rights to the body"
6.those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
7.location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east"he stood on the right"
8.(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing"mineral rights" "film rights"
right (v. trans.)
1.make right or correct"Correct the mistakes" "rectify the calculation"
2.regain an upright or proper position"The capsized boat righted again"
3.put in or restore to an upright position"They righted the sailboat that had capsized"
4.make reparations or amends for"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
Rights (n.)
1.(MeSH)The rights of the individual to cultural, social, economic, and educational opportunities as provided by society, e.g., right to work, right to education, and right to social security.;Justified claims that require action or restraint from others, i.e., impose positive or negative duties on others. (from Gillon, Raanan, "Rights," BMJ: 1985 Jun 22; 290(6485): 1890-1891). Used for the concept of rights in a philosophical sense, often contrasted with MORAL OBLIGATIONS.
rights
1.payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property"he received royalties on his book"
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Merriam Webster
RightRight (rīt), a. [OE. right, riht, AS. riht; akin to D. regt, OS. & OHG. reht, G. recht, Dan. ret, Sw. rätt, Icel. rëttr, Goth. raíhts, L. rectus, p. p. of regere to guide, rule; cf. Skr. ṛju straight, right. √115. Cf. Adroit,Alert, Correct, Dress, Regular, Rector, Recto, Rectum, Regent, Region, Realm, Rich, Royal, Rule.]
1. Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. “Right as any line.” Chaucer
2. Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
3. Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.
2. Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
5. Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious. “His right wife.” Chaucer.
In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.
6. According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well. Shak.
If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” Locke.
7. Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
The lady has been disappointed on the right side. Spectator.
8. Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. Longfellow.
☞ In designating the banks of a river, right and left are used always with reference to the position of one who is facing in the direction of the current's flow.
9. Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
10. Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
At right angles, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. -- Right and left, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] -- Right and left coupling (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly. -- Right angle. (a) The angle formed by one line meeting another perpendicularly, as the angles ABD, DBC. (b) (Spherics) A spherical angle included between the axes of two great circles whose planes are perpendicular to each other. -- Right ascension. See under Ascension. -- Right Center (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendicular to the base. -- Right line. See under Line. -- Right sailing (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude, but not both. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Right sphere (Astron. & Geol.), a sphere in such a position that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles; in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator.
☞ Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true.
“Right,” cries his lordship. Pope.
Syn. -- Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful; rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper; suitable; becoming.
RightRight, adv.
1. In a right manner.
2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
Unto Dian's temple goeth she right. Chaucer.
Let thine eyes look right on. Prov. iv. 25.
Right across its track there lay,
Down in the water, a long reef of gold. Tennyson.
3. Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Came he right now to sing a raven's note? Shak.
4. According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
5. According to any rule of art; correctly.
You with strict discipline instructed right. Roscommon.
6. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. “Right at mine own cost.” Chaucer.
Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. Chaucer.
His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. Fairfax.
7. In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. “He was not right fat”. Chaucer.
For which I should be right sorry. Tyndale.
[I] return those duties back as are right fit. Shak.
☞ In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.
Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.
☞ Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.
Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Right away, or Right off, at once; straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] “We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off.” D. Webster.
RightRight (?), n. [AS. right. See Right, a.]
1. That which is right or correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
Seldom your opinions err;
Your eyes are always in the right. Prior.
(c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
Long love to her has borne the faithful knight,
And well deserved, had fortune done him right. Dryden.
2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties. Coleridge.
(b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal. (c) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
Born free, he sought his right. Dryden.
Hast thou not right to all created things? Milton.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable. Burke.
(d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
3. The right side; the side opposite to the left.
Led her to the Souldan's right. Spenser.
4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
At all right, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under Bill. -- By right, By rights, or By good rights, rightly; properly; correctly.
RightRight, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Righted; p. pr. & vb. n. Righting.] [AS. rihtan. See Right, a.]
1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
So just is God, to right the innocent. Shak.
All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Jefferson.
To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. -- To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel.
RightRight, v. i.
1. To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
2. (Naut.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
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right (adj.)
accurate, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, correct, due, equitable, erect, exact, fair, fair-minded, fit, fitting, genuine, good, honest, just, lawful, legitimate, normal, offside, perpendicular, pertinent, precise, proper, rational, reasonable, rightful, right-hand, right wing, right-wing, ripe, sane, seemly, straight, suitable, true, upright, valid, veracious, vertical
right (adj.) (politics)
rightist, right-wing (politics)
right (adv.)
aright, at once, at the double, certain, certainly, correctly, decent, decently, directly, exactly, flop, for certain, for sure, forthwith, immediately, incisively, indeed, in good order, instantly, justly, like a shot, mightily, mighty, now, O.K., on the double, outright, powerful, precisely, promptly, properly, quite, really, reliably, right away, rightly, right now, right on, safely, securely, so, straight away, straight off, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely, the right way, this instant, truly, right off (American), straightaway (British)
right (adv.) (colloquial)
right (adv./adj.)
right (n.)
jurisprudence, law, rightfield, right field, rightfulness, right hand, right-hand side, right side, right wing, offside (British)
Rights (n.) (MeSH)
See also
right (adj.)
↘ erectness, sheer, uprightness, verticality, vertically, verticalness ↗ erectly, justifiedly, rightly, straight-backed, uprightly ≠ center, incorrect, left, unerect, wrong
right (adv.)
↘ immediate, proper, sure ↗ fair, fair-minded, legitimate ≠ imprecisely, improperly, incorrectly, inexactly, left, unfitly, unsuitably, wrong, wrongly
right (v. trans.)
↘ correction, edit, rectifiable, rectification, reparable ≠ be hard on, falsify, wrong
right (n.)
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right (adj.)
spécifié (fr)[Classe]
right (adj.)
appropriate[Similaire]
right (adj.)
incorrect, wrong[Ant.]
correctness, rightness[Dérivé]
right (adj.)
appropriateness, rightness - correctness[Dérivé]
wrong[Ant.]
right (adj.)
opportune[Similaire]
right (adj.)
outer, outside[Similaire]
right (adj.)
perpendicular[Similaire]
right (adj.)
proper[Similaire]
right (adj.)
proper[Similaire]
right (adj.)
right-handed[Similaire]
right (adj.)
left[Ant.]
place, position[Dérivé]
right (adj.)
justifiedly, justly, rightly - rightness[Dérivé]
wrong[Ant.]
right (adj.)
not bad, satisfactory[Similaire]
right (adj.)
perpendicular; erect; vertical; upright[ClasseHyper.]
dressé (attitude) (fr)[Classe]
qualificatif de forme (fr)[Classe...]
queue (fr)[DomaineDescription]
right (adj.)
accurate[Similaire]
right (adj. et adv.)
to the right; on the right[ClasseHyper.]
right (adj. et adv.)
right[Similaire]
right (adv.) [colloquial]
directly; direct; right; straightly[ClasseHyper.]
right (adv.)
très (intensité) ; intensifieur d'adjectif (fr)[Classe]
adverbes modifieurs de "plus" (fr)[Classe]
intensifier, intensive[Domaine]
right (adv.)
colloquial expression, colloquialism[Domaine]
right (adv.)
aye; yes; yea; yeah[Classe]
right (adv.)
right (adv.)
right (adv.)
avec justice (fr)[Classe]
juste (fr)[Adv.]
right (adv.)
left[Ant.]
right (adv.)
aussitôt (fr)[Classe]
right (interj.)
exclamation d'étonnement (fr)[Classe]
right (n.)
right (n.)
turn, turning[Hyper.]
right (n.)
rightfielder, right fielder[Dérivé]
outfield[Desc]
right (n.)
equity, justice, justness[Hyper.]
rightful - lawful, legitimate, rightful, true[Dérivé]
wrong, wrongfulness[Ant.]
right (n.)
right; law; jurisprudence[ClasseHyper.]
science humaine (fr)[Classe]
ce qui est énoncé, exigible et permis par le Droit (fr)[ClasseHyper.]
abstract, abstraction[Hyper.]
right (n.)
hand; manus; mitt; paw[Classe]
(offside; right-hand side; right side), (to the right; on the right)[termes liés]
hand, manus, mitt, paw[Hyper.]
right (n.)
doctrine politique de droite (fr)[Classe]
(member of parliament)[termes liés]
right (n.)
ce qui est possédé (fr)[Classe]
interest, participation, stake, subsidy[Hyper.]
compensate, correct, redress, right[Dérivé]
plural, plural form[Domaine]
right (v. tr.)
change by reversal, reverse, swing, turn[Hyper.]
correction, emendation, rectification[Dérivé]
falsify[Ant.]
right (v. tr.)
alter, change, modify[Hyper.]
draw on, right[Domaine]
right (v. tr.)
témoigner de la reconnaissance (fr)[Classe]
rendre égal (fr)[Classe...]
Rights (n.) [MeSH]
rights
revenu de la propriété (fr)[Classe]
rémunération liée à un volume d'activité (fr)[Classe]
revenu d'un artiste (fr)[Classe]
(brand; make; marque; registered trademark; registered trade name; tradename)[termes liés]
payment[Hyper.]
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Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.[1] Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology.
Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization, being regarded as established pillars of society and culture,[2] and the history of social conflicts can be found in the history of each right and its development. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived."[1] The connection between rights and struggle cannot be overstated — rights are not as much granted or endowed as they are fought for and claimed, and the essence of struggles past and ancient are encoded in the spirit of current concepts of rights and their modern formulations.
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The Modern English word right derives from Old English riht or reht, in turn from Proto-Germanic *riχtaz meaning "right" or "direct", and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg-to- meaning "having moved in a straight line", in turn from *(o)reg'(a)- meaning "to straighten or direct".[3] In several different Indo-European languages, a single word derived from the same root means both "right" and "law", such as French droit,[4] Spanish derecho,[5] and German recht.[6]
Many other words related to normative or regulatory concepts derive from this same root, including correct,[7] regulate,[8] and rex[9] (meaning "king"), whence regal[10] and thence royal.[11] Likewise many more geometric terms derive from this same root, such as erect (as in "upright"),[12] rectangle (literally "right angle"),[13] straight[14] and stretch.[15] Like right, the English words rule[16] and ruler,[17] deriving still from the same root, have both normative or regulatory and geometric meanings (e.g. a ruler as in a king, or a ruler as in a straightedge).
Several other roots have similar normative and geometric descendants, such as Latin norma,[18] whence norm,[19] normal,[20] and normative[21] itself, and also geometric concepts such as normal vectors; and likewise Greek ortho[22] and Latin ordo,[23] meaning either "right" or "correct" (as in orthodox, meaning "correct opinion"[24]) or "straight" or "perpendicular" (as in orthogonal, meaning "perpendicular angle"[25]), and thence order,[26] ordinary,[27] etc.
There is considerable disagreement about what is meant precisely by the term rights. It has been used by different groups and thinkers for different purposes, with different and sometimes opposing definitions, and the precise definition of this principle, beyond having something to do with normative rules of some sort or another, is controversial.
One way to get an idea of the multiple understandings and senses of the term is to consider different ways it is used. Many diverse things are claimed as rights:
“ | A right to life, a right to choose; a right to vote, to work, to strike; a right to one phone call, to dissolve parliament, to operate a forklift, to asylum, to equal treatment before the law, to feel proud of what one has done; a right to exist, to sentence an offender to death, to launch a nuclear first strike, to carry a concealed weapon, to a distinct genetic identity; a right to believe one's own eyes, to pronounce the couple husband and wife, to be left alone, to go to hell in one's own way.[1] | ” |
There are likewise diverse possible ways to categorize rights, such as:
“ | Who is alleged to have the right: Children's rights, animal rights, workers' rights, states' rights, the rights of peoples. What actions or states or objects the asserted right pertains to: Rights of free expression, to pass judgment; rights of privacy, to remain silent; property rights, bodily rights. Why the rightholder (allegedly) has the right: Moral rights spring from moral reasons, legal rights derive from the laws of the society, customary rights are aspects of local customs. How the asserted right can be affected by the rightholder's actions: The inalienable right to life, the forfeitable right to liberty, and the waivable right that a promise be kept.[1] | ” |
There has been considerable debate about what this term means within the academic community, particularly within fields such as philosophy, law, deontology, logic, and political science. One way to look at different senses of the term of rights is to examine contrasting ideas about the concept.
Some thinkers see rights in only one sense while others accept that both senses have a measure of validity. There has been considerable philosophical debate about these senses throughout history. For example, Jeremy Bentham believed that legal rights were the essence of rights, and he denied the existence of natural rights; whereas Thomas Aquinas held that rights purported by positive law but not grounded in natural law were not properly rights at all, but only a facade or pretense of rights.
Liberty rights and claim rights are the inverse of one another: a person has a liberty right permitting him to do something only if there is no other person who has a claim right forbidding him from doing so. Likewise, if a person has a claim right against someone else, then that other person's liberty is limited. For example, a person has a liberty right to walk down a sidewalk and can decide freely whether or not to do so, since there is no obligation either to do so or to refrain from doing so. But pedestrians may have an obligation not to walk on certain lands, such as other people's private property, to which those other people have a claim right. So a person's liberty right of walking extends precisely to the point where another's claim right limits his or her freedom.
In one sense, a right is a permission to do something or an entitlement to a specific service or treatment, and these rights have been called positive rights. However, in another sense, rights may allow or require inaction, and these are called negative rights; they permit or require doing nothing. For example, in some democracies e.g. the US, citizens have the positive right to vote and they have the negative right not to vote; people can stay home and watch television instead, if they desire. In other democracies e.g. Australia, however, citizens have a positive right to vote but they don't have a negative right to not vote, since non-voting citizens can be fined. Accordingly:
Though similarly named, positive and negative rights should not be confused with active rights (which encompass "privileges" and "powers") and passive rights (which encompass "claims" and "immunities").
The general concept of rights is that they are possessed by individuals in the sense that they are permissions and entitlements to do things which other persons, or which governments or authorities, can not infringe. This is the understanding of people such as the author Ayn Rand who argued that only individuals have rights, according to her philosophy known as Objectivism.[29] However, others have argued that there are situations in which a group of persons is thought to have rights, or group rights. Accordingly:
There can be tension between individual and group rights. A classic instance in which group and individual rights clash is conflicts between unions and their members. For example, individual members of a union may wish a wage higher than the union-negotiated wage, but are prevented from making further requests; in a so-called closed shop which has a union security agreement, only the union has a right to decide matters for the individual union members such as wage rates. So, do the supposed "individual rights" of the workers prevail about the proper wage? Or do the "group rights" of the union regarding the proper wage prevail? Clearly this is a source of tension.
Other distinctions between rights draw more on historical association or family resemblance than on precise philosophical distinctions. These include the distinction between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, between which the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are often divided. Another conception of rights groups them into three generations. These distinctions have much overlap with that between negative and positive rights, as well as between individual rights and group rights, but these groupings are not entirely coextensive.
Rights are often included in the foundational questions that governments and politics have been designed to deal with. Often the development of these socio-political institutions have formed a dialectical relationship with rights.
Rights about particular issues, or the rights of particular groups, are often areas of special concern. Often these concerns arise when rights come into conflict with other legal or moral issues, sometimes even other rights. Issues of concern have historically included labor rights, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, disability rights, patient rights and prisoners' rights. With increasing monitoring and the information society, information rights, such as the right to privacy are becoming more important.
Some examples of groups whose rights are of particular concern include animals,[30] and amongst humans, groups such as children[31] and youth, parents (both mothers and fathers), and men and women.[32]
Accordingly, politics plays an important role in developing or recognizing the above rights, and the discussion about which behaviors are included as "rights" is an ongoing political topic of importance. The concept of rights varies with political orientation. Positive rights such as a "right to medical care" are emphasized more often by left-leaning thinkers, while right-leaning thinkers place more emphasis on negative rights such as the "right to a fair trial".
Further, the term equality which is often bound up with the meaning of "rights" often depends on one's political orientation. Conservatives and libertarians and advocates of free markets often identify equality with equality of opportunity, and want equal and fair rules in the process of making things, while agreeing that sometimes these fair rules lead to unequal outcomes. In contrast, socialists often identify equality with equality of outcome and see fairness when people have equal amounts of goods and services, and therefore think that people have a right to equal portions of necessities such as health care or economic assistance or housing.[33]
The specific enumeration of rights has differed greatly in different periods of history. In many cases, the system of rights promulgated by one group has come into sharp and bitter conflict with that of other groups. In the political sphere, a place in which rights have historically been an important issue, at present the question of who has what legal rights is sometimes addressed by the constitutions of the respective nations.
Most historic notions of rights were authoritarian and hierarchical, with different people being granted different rights, and some having more rights than others. For instance, the right of a father to be respected by his son did not indicate a duty upon the father to return that respect, and the divine right of kings which permitted absolute power over subjects did not leave room for many rights to be granted to the subjects themselves.[34]
In contrast, modern conceptions of rights often emphasize liberty and equality as among the most important aspects of rights, though conceptions of liberty (e.g. positive or negative) and equality (e.g. of opportunity or of outcome) frequently differ.
Important documents in the political history of rights include:
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